Sociology last unit Flashcards
Triangle theory of love
passion(infatuation) + intimacy(liking) + commitment(empty love)
romantic love: passion+intimacy
companionate: intimacy + commitment
fatuous love: passion + commitment
family
2 or more people who consider themselves related by marriage, blood, or adoption
nuclear family
a family of a husband, wife, child(ren)
extended family
a family where relatives living with parents and children
blended family
a family where other people once used to be a part of another family
marriage
a groups approved mating arrangements, marked by a ritual
endogamy
practice of marrying within one’s group
exogamy
practice of marrying outside one’s group
homogamy
people with similar characteristics to marry one another
functionalist perspective
families fulfill 6 key functions:
economic production
socialization of children
care of the sick and aged
recreation
sexual control
reproduction
dysfunction in nuclear families:
isolation and overload
conflict theory perspective
2 overarching claims about family
marriage and family roles reflect the basic social inequality that run through society.
gender inequality and conflict is reflected through the division of labor at home.
division of labor
women expected to do home chores and child care, but recent increase in male participation (1960 x2 for housework and x3 for childcare)
women still do vast majority of housework 70%
changes in American families
less children live with 2 parents
increase in childless couples
decreased fertility desire
rising marriage age
increase in cohabitation
increase in divorce (functionalist says linked to dysfunction in family, conflict theory says linked to women’s rights and independence, symbolic says ideas, expectations and cultural meaning of marriage)
sex
corporeal (body)- assigned at birth
gender
social- socialization is largely tied to assumed sex
behaviors or attitudes society associates with masculinity or femininity
gender gets mapped onto sex
gender typing
gender based expectations and behaviors
gender stratification
unequal access to power, property, and prestige based on gender
patriarchy & its origin
men as a group dominating women as a group- henslin
human reproduction: treating women as possession, she stayed home with child while men hunted, travel, controlled
hand to hand combat: direct conflict disadvantaged women, led to male domination
not conclusive or exhaustive theories
examples of patriarchy
education: 2/3 of global illiterate are women
politics: women 24% of global legislative bodies
pay: in US, Latina make 58%, black women 65%, white women 82% of white men’s earning
violence: sexual violence, domestic abuse
mixed messages
Ruth sidel
media presents ideas of successful femininity or womanhood, often middle to upper class, present women’s success as individual initiative rather than social or economic conditions
